Associate source monitor and project item

[eyali_av]

Hi all!

All I want, is a way to interact with source monitor...

When I say interact, I mean: get Mark in and Mark out from the source monitor window. That's it.

As this happen to be not implemented (as I saw here​ - a post written by Premiopolis), I thought maybe using the metadata that I can retrieve within the projectItem scope.

So, my problem now is: how do I coordinate/associate those 2 objects - source monitor clip and projectItem ??

I know how to import to a Bin with

app.project.importFiles ...

... and I know how to open a file in a source monitor with

qe.source.openFilePath(fileToOpen);

but those won't be the same instance - if I change Mark In or Mark out in the source monitor - the projectItem instance's metadata won't updated with this change.

Anyone have done something similar?

Or have an idea how to accomplish this? Perhaps a workaround, or direction?

Thanks!

[Premiopolis]

+1 Thanks for posting.

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

There is no direct way to coordinate media from the Source monitor, to a specific projectItem. Not everything in the Source monitor, actually refers to a projectItem.

This will check the project for any items which match a given path.

var ignoreSubClips = 1;

var arrayOfProjectItemsReferencingSomePath = app.project.rootItem.findItemsMatchingMediaPath(path, ignoreSubClips);